1)Everything Everything - Get to Heaven
2)Swim Deep - Mothers
3)Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
4)Kamasi Washington - The Epic
5)Death Grips - The Powers That B
6)Lil Ugly Mane - Third Side of Tape
7)Vince Staples - Summertime '06
8)The Vaccines - English Graffiti
9)Nicole Sabouné - Miman
10)Lao Che - Dzieciom

I think I will post this here instead of my journal so I can keep working on other reviews.

10. Wavves - V

9. Albert Hammond Jr - Momentary Masters

8. Tyler the Creator - Cherry Bomb

7. Alabama Shakes - Sound and Color

6. Faith No More - Sol Invictus

5. Death Grips - The Powers that B

4. Wavves and Cloud Nothings - No Life for Me

3. Between the Buried and Me - Coma Ecliptic

2. Tame Impala - Currents

1. Ghost - Meliora

no number 8?

how's the cloud nothings tracks on their split with Wavves?

couldn't care for the latter so didn't get the release.

Totally missed that mistake. I fixed it above.

The question you pose to me is slightly confusing. Could you elaborate?

It's more of a colab than a split, and even then it sounds kida like a darker iteration of Wavves early lo-fi stuff. There's not much variety to it, but it's great. Doesn't sound like either artist too much really, I'd try it out if you like cloud Nothings though.

^^^^

Oh I get it that is what he was asking.

It truly is one of the best surprises of the year for me. I had no idea it was even coming out until I think March, and even then it came out in late June with no warning.

Yeah it was quite a low-key thing. I was definitely expecting/hoping more of a King of the Beach meets Attack on Memory thing but what actually came out wasn't too bad either.

I've noticed an extreme lack of Viet Cong in this thread as well.

Here's my list for now...
Not ordered of course.

Edit: KEN mode's Success is my favorite from this year.

METZ- II
Ceremony- L Shaped Man
Viet Cong- S/T
Stabbed in Back- Dasvydinia
Cave State- 7 Inch (my bad, that was last year. Flesh Wounds- In the Mouth then.)
Wavves x Cloud Nothings- No Life For Me
Kendrick Lamar- To Pimp a Butterfly
Sleater Kinney- No Cities to Love
Dang! Records- A Fat Comp: Tribute to Fat Wreck Chords
Title Fight- Hyperview

I loved Trash Masquerade too, thanks for that Deadchannel

Other honorable mentions: Torche's Restarter, High on Fire's Lumineferous, Thee Oh Sees' Manipulator Defeated at Last, Wavves' IV, Atlas Losing Grip's Currents, The Pop Group's Citizen Zombie, KEN mode's Success (actually probably my favorite now that I think about it), and The World Is' Harmlessness.

Both of those records are fantastic. King of the Beach being my favorite Wavves album. Attack on Memory same deal.

Would you believe me if I said Viet Cong wasn't that good? I thought the album was slightly overrated when it first came out. Even now it still is lacking in a lot of places for me. I didn't think it was bad. Just not end of the year list material.

Part of it being on mine is I've probably listened to only a handful of albums from this year. That said, I'm sure there's better post-punk than Ceremony's new one and VC, but I never looked into it enough. By any means, their all still stellar albums.